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- 9831: Hamlet 4
- Hamlet One of the themes I found in the play Hamlet, was the way Hamlet seemed to hold back on getting revenge for his father s murder once he know who did it. After his father s death and the hasty remarriage of his mother to his uncle, Hamlet started to spiral into a suicidal frame of mind. It is in this state that he meets the mysterious figure of his father s ghost where he is told that it was his uncle, Claudius responsible for his death. Hamlet pledges to revenge his murder by Claudius who, the ghost also informs Hamlet, had already committed adultery with ...
- 9832: Lucky Winner
- ... family is affected by money, material gain and social position. Paul, a young boy in the story and his family are not happy at all since money is a big issue in the family. Paul’s mother thinks that her husband and the children are not lucky therefore she does not have a lot of money. She starts not to love the children and brings cold atmosphere to the family. In ... but she can not find any success. Buying expensive things is a good example of materialistic gain in this family because the parents always want to buy more and more expensive things when they don’t have enough money. According to the story when Christmas comes “ when the expensive and splendid toys filled the nursery. Behind the shining modern rocking horse, behind the smart doll’s-house, a voice would start whispering: ‘There must be more money! There must be more money!’ ”. Beside, the family buys things that they do not really need instead of save money to buy something ...
- 9833: Solo: A Book Review
- ... at sea, and the only people he had left were his nanny and his aunt. The book gives an accurate description of his life and times before his incredible hobby. After the book describes Mikali's background, which itself is filled with death, the book goes into the current life of Mikali and how he got to where he is. Mikali discovered his great talent in music at a very early ... schooling in the form of music he loves the most: the Piano. The book after it has dealt with the past then goes into the present. Using this method, it resembles a time line: MIKALI'S DEEP PAST--------RECENT PAST---------PRESENT TIME After the recent past, in which Mikali has killed over 30 well known and influential people all around the globe. He uses his influential piano connections to travel all around the globe. He then makes the fatal mistake someone else did to him by doing it to someone else, with even more power than him. Mikali's most loved relative was killed by a hit and run driver-and then one day Mikali kills the daughter of a retired SAS Soldier, Asa Morgan. Morgan is a trained and skilled killer himself. ...
- 9834: Return To Oneness
- Return to Oneness ¡ª¡ªOn the Theme of Doppelganger in Poe¡¯s tales Doppelganger is a wraith or apparition of a living person, as distinguished from a ghost. The concept of the existence of a spirit double, an exact but usually invisible replica of every man, bird ... a group of tales in which the motif of doppelganger is apparent and try to see what significance it has and how relevant it is to an understanding of him. Poe believes that an artist's finite mind should reflect as closely as possible the infinite mind of God. What is the infinite mind of God? Poe says that God created matter from His spirit. The matter in the beginning assumes ... in an unnatural and abnormal state, these spiritual and material individuations long for, and eventually return to the Divine Unity, which is, as I mentioned above, the only natural condition of the universe in Poe¡¯s context. Upon reunification, God recreates the universe in another round in the same way. This is what is called the infinite mind of God. Although Poe¡¯s notion that an artist¡¯s mind should ...
- 9835: Cleopatra Biography
- Cleopatra’s Wiles Mother, lover, warrior, femme-fatale. Mother of a country, lover of all that brings beauty, warrior of the state, femme-fatale over all men; this was Cleopatra Queen of the Nile. Cleopatra’s intelligence, wit and beauty are still remembered and written about to this day. Born a Greek, Cleopatra adapted to the Egyptian ways and even learnt their native tongue, a feat which had not been ccomplished ... tremendous aptitude and cunning female ways to gain and provide, for her country that she so loved. Cleopatra was a born ruler and did so with a flourish that would later be her undoing. Cleopatra’s seductive, yet absolute ability to keep Egypt in the means of profit and gain was accomplished through her fabled beauty, cunning intelligence and political know how and intimate details of events surrounding her life. " ...
- 9836: Charachter Analysis Banquo
- Throughout Shakespeare's Macbeth, Banquo is a foil to Macbeth. Banquo's logic and restraint contrasts Macbeth's erupting ambition and recklessness. Shakespeare created two opposite characters, Banquo and Macbeth who server to foil each other. A foil is someone or something that serves to contrast another; Banquo and Macbeth foil each ...
- 9837: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald once said "Mostly we authors must repeat ourselves–that's the truth. We have two or three experiences in our lives– experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time that anyone else has been so caught up" (de Koster n. pag.). Fitzgerald's works contain many themes that are based from experiences in his life. Many of these experiences he talks about were with the women in his life. People like his mother, Ginerva King, and Zelda ...
- 9838: Mozart
- ... Enlightenment The world that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart entered ceremoniously in 1756 was brimming in change. Historians refer to this era as the Age of Enlightenment, one of unparalleled scientific, philosophical, and political ferment. Within Mozart’s lifetime it set in motion forces that would fundamentally alter life not only in his native, Salzburg, but also around the globe. The Enlightenment was not, to be sure, a democratic movement. In France, the ... Louis XIV, continued under Louis XV and XVI. But in Austria, Empress Maria Theresa introduced a greater measure of tolerance and freedom among her subjects, laying a foundation for the democratic revolutions that followed. Wolfgang’s father Leopold came from a family of Augsburg bookbinders. He received a solid Jesuit education, more intellectual than evangelical after a year at the Benedictine University in nearby Salzburg; Leopold stopped attending classes to pursue a career as a musician. “Leopold figured as Mozart’s most important first model. He taught his son the clavier and composition”(Mercardo 763). Wolfgang’s mother Anna-Maria brought as much talent to her 32-year marriage as did Leopold. Though deprived of ...
- 9839: How Huck Uses His Creativity, Luck, and Wits to Get Rid of the Pits
- ... river, he must fake his death to “escape” from pap. The first thing Huck did was to make sure that pap was far away before starting his getaway. At this point, many children of Huck's age would merely get in a canoe and head down stream, most likely getting caught the next day. Huckleberry Finn is smarter than that. Huck wanted to make sure that no one would come down ... profile for a while, it was important that it was a stranger. As he knocked on the door, he reminded himself to act like a girl. The lady invited him in. They talked about Huck's home town, Tom Sawyer's 20,000 dollars, and inevitably, Huck's murder. The lady soon became suspicious of Huck's femininity. She finally asked Huck, “What is you real name? Is it Bill, or Tom, or Bob?-or ...
- 9840: The Yellow Wallpaper: A Woman's Struggle
- The Yellow Wallpaper: A Woman's Struggle Pregnancy and childbirth are very emotional times in a woman's life and many women suffer from the "baby blues." The innocent nickname for postpartum depression is deceptive because it down plays the severity of this condition. Although she was not formally diagnosed with postpartum depression, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) developed a severe depression after the birth of her only child (Kennedy et. al. 424). Unfortunately, she was treated by Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, who forbade her to write and prescribed only bed rest and quiet for recovery (Kennedy et al. 424). Her condition only worsened and ultimately resulted in divorce (Kennedy and Gioia 424). Gilman' ...
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